Dems New Plan For Growth: Tax All ATM Withdrawals And The Internet

Well, of course. What better way to make people keep banks healthy than to encourage them to stop using them? What better way to grow the economy than to make it more expensive to make internet purchases?

Hey Dems. Growing the economy and growing the government are mutually exclusive. Just a hint.

You remember Lanny Davis, right? He’s the nice guy you sometimes get confused with Leon Panetta because they both worked for Clinton and their names both start with “L”.

But when Davis speaks and floats ideas, it is more than just your run of the mill Washington personality floating an idea. When Lanny Davis drops an op-ed, there tends to be more to it. So we should take note that he’s got Democrats signing onto a plan to tax your ATM withdrawals.

Why, you ask? Well, to pay down the deficit.

Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) has introduced Davis’s dream legislation. It would charge a penny for every dollar of your money drawn from an ATM machine. That would then beg the question — why put your money in a bank if you are going to get taxed merely for the right to access your money.